Re: Passing null to setFooHandler

[email protected] wrote on 04/25/2004 02:21:11 PM:

> 
> 
> > I suggest we add verbiage like the following to each of the setter 
> > methods in XMLReader:
> > 
> > An application may pass null to this method to remove the currently 
> > registered ContentHandler. In this case, the parser must stop using 
the 
> > old handler immediately. A NullPointerException is not thrown.
> 
> Make sense to. Is that really not documented?

The javadoc for the setFooHandler methods currently says: "Applications 
may register a new or different handler in the middle of a parse and the 
SAX parser must begin using the new handler immediately." Does more really 
need to be said here? The NullPointerException condition was removed in 
SAX 2.0.1.

> Karl
> 
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Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
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